Malayalam Film Music

[raagadevan]

A collection of Hindi Music Director (Bombay) Ravi's compositions for Malayalam movies
(2 hours and 15 minutes of audio only, no video):

[raagadevan]

K. Raghavan (Master) who was a pioneer of Malayalam drama and movie music
composition passed away yesterday at a hospital in Thalassery.

Here are a few of his popular movie songs:

"kaayalarikaththu valayerinjappOL..."; Raghavan Master composed and sang this one for his
first movie NEELAKKUYIL (1954):




"aaru nee en maarivillE...": fromUNNIYAARCHA (1961) sung by A.M. Raja:




"karimukil kaattilE..."; from KALLICHELLAMMA (1969) by P. Jayachandran:




"kaNNante kaviLil nin..."; from POOJAIKKEDUKKAATHTHA POOKKAL (1977) by M. Balamurlikrishna:




"shyaama sundhara pudhpamE..."; from YUDHDHA KAANDAM (1977) by K.J. Yesudas:

[raagadevan]

For those who like sad melodies, here is one in ஆபேரி ராகம்; classic lyrics by ஸ்ரீகுமாரன் தம்பி;
set to music by the not much known வித்யாதரன்; from the movie வீண பூவு (1983); and sung by
the one and only கே.ஜே. யேசுதாஸ்!

[raagadevan]

Music Director K. Raghukumar no more...

"He may never have become the busiest composer in Malayalam cinema, but he continued to create beautiful music."

http://www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...cle5713371.ece


Here are some of Raghukumar's compositions:


பொன் வீணே...




செம்பரத்திப் பூவே சொல்லு...




பொன்முரளி ஊதும் காட்டில்...




நீயென் கினாவோ பூவோ நிலாவோ...




மெல்லெ நீ மெல்லெ வரூ...

[RR]

raagadevan,

Didnt check in here for a long time.. Thanks

Here's my evergreen favorite.. Was listening today after a while

Orangalil
Film-Thaalolam , (1998),
Lyrics / Music- Kaithapram,
Singer-Sudeep Kumar

[raagadevan]

Here's my evergreen favorite.. Was listening today after a while

Orangalil
Film-Thaalolam , (1998),
Lyrics / Music- Kaithapram,
Singer-Sudeep Kumar

Very good choice, RR! Kaithapram (Damodaran Namboothiri), the lyricist/composer of this song, is a very talented and multifaceted artist. In addition to writing poetry, movie lyrics, stories and screen plays, he is also an established music director and actor. He also performs live Carnatic music concerts. As you likely know, he plays the role of the classical singer Ananthan Kutty in the movie His Highness Abdullah; and M.G. Sreekumar sings "naadharoopini..." for him. ( youtube.com/watch?v=KA1ANTEWTTY )

[RR]

RD, yes I have seen the HHD movie (and its inspirations in tamil) and noticed him.. Also sings the competition song, rt? Actually 'orangalil' bears strong resemblance to 'pramadhavanam' (more than just the raga). I use it to think this too is by Raveendran until someone told me it is not. The question still lingers though: who is the real composer for both..

Anyway pls keep posting your malayalam song picks..

[raagadevan]

Hi RR: You are right. Kaithapram is the actor for the competition song "dEvasabhaathalam raagilamaakuvaan...", which is sung by Raveendran himself along with Yesudas and a small portion by Sharreth. Another version with Sreekumar instead of Raveendran was also recorded, but was not used in the movie.

The real composer for "OrangaLil..." is Kaithapram, and for "pramadhavanam veeNdum..." it is Raveendran. Both the songs are in Jog raaga and sound very similar, as you pointed out. It is also likely that K got some inspiration/guidance for his earlier movies from R ! To add to the confusion, Kaithapram wrote the lyrics for both songs!

Here is "dEvasabhaathalam..." (I probably have posted this one long long ago!):

[RR]

What a song! I think the performances are also wonderful (esp. Mohanlal. Not for moment that KJY came to my mind!). Only in malayalam movies, the key actors do the 'thaalam podaradhu' properly. Even the music playing is acted professionally. In most of the tamil/hindi movies, the instrument playing will be like koundamani keyboard typing..

Sharath singing - is it the Nedumudi venu part?

[RR]

This is my pick for today



--- Got this article about the making of the song from web ---
Devasuram was a wonderful movie under the direction of I.V.Sasi and it was scripted by Ranjith. The hero was Mohanlal and heroine was Revathy and both them were acted brilliantly . Like the script, the music was also very important in this film. The music and lyrics has been done by M.G.Radhakrishnan and Gireesh Puthanchery respectively. Each and every song in this film were excellent and still it has not lost a single element of freshness.

In the song ‘’Angopankam’’ the heroine Revathy did a wonderful job. Her dance and expressions were so high in all aspects. The song has been recorded in the Prasad 70 MM Studio. The officials approached Chithra to sing this song but Chithra couldn’t reach at time as she was having an another recording which has been committed earlier. But it was an emergency situation for the team of Devasuram and they finally decided to record the song with any other female singer. Even though they decided to go for an another singer, the lyric writer Girish Puthenchery was in confusion that who can sing this particular song by giving the sufficient feel and emotions instead of Chithra ?

They did the recording with some other singers but nobody could deliver the feel as they wanted. The time was already 10 PM. Music director M.G.Radhakrishnan sir called Chithra. She was in a recording of a Telugu film. Chithra gave the word to Radhakrishnan sir that she will come there just before 12 AM. She reached there at 12.15 AM and Radhakrishnan Sir gave the song and she begun to study. Chithra was ready just after 15 minutes and they started the recording of that tough song !!
The recording completed and it was ok with one and only take !! . Dr. Omanakkutty, the teacher of Chithra, M.G.Sreekumar and singer B.Arundhathy were in that studio on that time. Both Omanakkutty teacher and Arundhathy sung the chorus for this song with Chithra. (M.G.Radhakrishanan and M.G.Sreekumar are brothers and Omanakkutty teacher is their sister).

According to the singer M.G.Sreekumar ‘’ While the composing of this song we all are having a feel that this song should be sung by Chithra. She couldn’t come. But god’s destiny wan another. God has already decided that its Chithra’s song. Our happiness was endless when the first take was ok. While Chithra sung the swaras we all felt bristling !!. That day also we could see a normal Chithra who always come with a beautiful smile and sing the heavy and tough songs with ease and go with another smile. I was stunned to hear her impossible singing. Only Chithra can do this !!’’.

Just after the song M.G.Radhakrishnan Sir and Omanakutty teacher came inside the cabin and hugged her. The director of the film I.V.Sasi said this song might be a mile stone of Chithra’s career. Also we felt some piercing voice from Chithra in this song. This song needed that kind of a feel , as the heroine was dancing with an anger due to the behaviour of the hero. As all expected, this song, the dance of Revathy and the acting of the great actor Mohanlal was simply amazing. The film Devasuram is an evergreen hit in Malayalam.
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Following Raj's idea, guess the raga of the song.. You can try before googling